Well, it’s been…interesting lately. In the last 3 and a half weeks I quit my old job, spent nearly 3 weeks unemployed wonering what I’d just done, got a new roommate, had a couple friends get married, got a new job (construction worker!), and taught my nephew to say ‘wookie’ and growl like one when you ask him what Chewy says. Amidst all of this I’m turning 24 next Monday, my youngest sister just got her learners licence, I finally finished unpacking my last box from moving in here last May, and lots of other little changes in the ongoing lives of friends and family all around me.
I would assume it’s just me, except that even in the news there are signs of people gearing up for changes all over. The passport offices here in Canada are going insane, reporting 4 to 6 hour line ups every day of people applying for passports (lucky me, mine expires the last day of our training camp, so I have to have mine before April and can’t wait for things to settle down). It’s like half the country suddenly has a serious case of wander lust. Weather patterns all over North America are completely backwards this year and really messing things up – I can’t buy some vegetables at the grocery store due to freezing in California? What the heck? That of course has people suddenly paying attention to the global warming thing and screaming at governments to force them to change our polluting habits. I love our blame shifting culture.
So this all has me thinking. The world is changing faster and faster, physically and culturally. I’m changing more and more, as is my life. People around me are going through changes faster than they can keep up with. Will the change that we seek to bring to people take firm enough hold amidst all of that to bear fruit? How can I effectively portray the fact that Christ is the only life change that ever truly matters when our global village supplies so many options for change and ‘betterment’? Will I have the capacity to let go of control of all these things that only God can do in the first place? As always, I keep trusting God wouldn’t have told me to do this if He didn’t have faith in me.
